Effects of feeding grass or red clover silage cut at two maturity stages in dairy cows. 2. Dry matter intake and cell wall digestion kinetics

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5634-5644

  Kuoppala, K ^a   Ahvenjarvi S ^a   Rinne, M ^a   Vanhatalo, A ^b  

^a ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cow; Fiber digestion; Grass silage; Red clover silage

Indexed keywords

BOS; POACEAE; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 70350333146     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2250     Document Type: Article

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